Main entry:

Carrier, David, 1944-

Title & Author:

Museum skepticism : a history of the display of art in public galleries / David Carrier.

Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2006.

Description:

xiii, 313 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-304) and index.
1. "Beauty and art, history and fame and power" : on entering the Louvre -- 2. Art and power : time travel in the museum -- 3. Museum skeptics -- 4. Picturing museum skepticism -- 5. Art museum narratives -- 6. Isabella Stewart Gardner's museum -- 7. Ernest Fenollosa's history of Asian art -- 8. Albert Barnes's foundation and the place of modernist art within the art museum -- 9. The display of absolutely contemporary art in the J. Paul Getty museum -- 10. The end of the modern public art museum : a tale of two cities -- Conclusion : What the public art museum might become.

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ISBN:

0822336820 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780822336822 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0822336944 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780822336945 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Art museums Social aspects.
Art museums Philosophy.
Art Exhibition techniques.
Art Museums Philosophy.
Art Museums Social aspects.
Art Musées Philosophie.
Art Musées Aspect social.
Art Techniques d'exposition.
20.12 art museums.
Präsentation
Ausstellung
Kunstmuseum
Kunstmusea.
Beeldende kunsten.
Tentoonstellingen.
Inrichting.
Konstmuseer historia.
1789-2006

Holdings:

Location: Library main 245683
Call No.: BIB 175302
Status: Available